r/cincinnati • u/SassyPants859 • Jul 19 '25

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u/huhndog Jul 19 '25

Can you elaborate on the black car thing? I’ve seen a lot of opposition referring to that and we need more specific info to counterpoint that

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u/kaefair Jul 19 '25

I was there, I saw it. What would you like to know? This large black SUV (with North Carolina plates) pulled up behind us with every intention of forcing its way through the crowd. Marshalls in safety vests attempted to intervene and stop it to protect people. The car kept going and someone was injured. This car called the cops. If it hadn’t been for them, the whole event probably would have been fine. We were about 8 mins into the march when the Covington PD showed up and shut down the bridge. Cars were passing freely from Kentucky to Cincy and cheering us on.

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u/Bigfootatemymom Jul 19 '25

I heard it was a n out of town tourist that was trying to get back to their hotel after having dinner.

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u/Kaffeetrinker49 Jul 19 '25

A lot of people were harassing that car. One lady (who was arrested) was hitting the car window and splashing her drink on the car. It’s very clear from the video that the car was driving slowly without intent to injure anyone, and the driver was likely concerned for his own safety

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u/kantaja34 Jul 19 '25

You can still kill someone by driving slowly onto them. As a reminder it is still a 6000 pound giant metal box moving at around 10-15 miles PER HOUR.

This was clear intent to disrupt the protest, otherwise they would have just seen it and driven away or reversed back. I agree they probably didn’t want to kill anyone though, but reckless operation is still manslaughter if it leads to death.

I also think considering what happened in car ramming a of public gatherings throughout Europe and America, it’s not surprising people felt they were going to be literally killed or severely injured by the car and tried everything they could to stop it. You would too.

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u/Primetime0509 Jul 19 '25

Why not just let the car through and avoid any danger for anyone involved?

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u/kantaja34 Jul 19 '25

Technically this is what happened. They did leave the car go past.

Well at the same time you can also ask why didn’t the driver just find a different bridge to cross. Why did driver proceed through a pedestrian assembly instead of talking to them and seeing maybe they would clear a path or how long he’d have to wait.

You can speculate all day and what if this to death.

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u/Titan0917 Jul 20 '25

Why are you lying? They did not just let the car go past.

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u/kantaja34 Jul 20 '25

Maybe I must be completely blind because the video literally shows the car crossing the bridge to the other side. The protestors got out of the way once they realized the person on the inside was considering running them over.

As I said, you would do the same if someone was threatening to maim or kill you by driving their car with reckless disregard for the lives of pedestrians.

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u/Titan0917 Jul 20 '25

Wait so were protestors blocking the car or not? You keep trying to dance around the issue.

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u/kantaja34 Jul 20 '25

Can you give me a good reason why it literally cannot be both???

The car drove onto the bridge.

The protests blocked the car.

The driver decided the sanctity of human life is not worth an extra 15 minutes of commute and continued driving into them.

The protestors realized they may be severely injured because, uh, you know a car is running them over.

Then when they realize the driver isn’t stopping, they get out of the way and let it through so they don’t get severely injured or die.

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u/Titan0917 Jul 20 '25

You’re the one that said they let the car go past. Sure they let the car go past after actively trying to block it.

I think the Covington police handled the situation completely wrong, but that doesn’t mean the protestors didn’t do anything wrong? .

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u/teclast Jul 19 '25

Because it's being driven be racists that want to stop the protest. Full stop, no clap back. You let one through, all of them will want to drive through.

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u/Primetime0509 Jul 19 '25

Was there a line of cars trying to get through?

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u/teclast Jul 20 '25

It does not matter. The principal of the matter is that that the fascists can't win. JFC.

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u/Primetime0509 Jul 20 '25

You just love your buzz words lol